Midsummer is here! World of Warcraft's Midsummer Fire Festival begins at 4:00am server time on June 21 and runs til 4:00am server time on July 5, and this year's festivities are better than ever! Acquire flamingthreads, a sweettabard, a fiery companion and more! Complete achievements to earn a new player title - Horde players can obtain the title 'Flame Keeper' and Alliance players can obtain the title 'Flame Warden.'

There are bonfires located in each major capital city, which are surrounded by questgivers, Midsummer Celebrants, and a Midsummer Supplier or Midsummer Merchant who sells items in exchange for 불타는 꽃. There are 'Commoner' NPCs of all races (including goblins!) that can be found lingering around the major cities and will give you a short (though unnecessary) quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps.

The main Midsummer Festival bonfire camps can be found at the following locations:

For players level 65 and above, an additional quest will become available. The first 2 parts of this quest chain are merely breadcrumb quests, intended to lead you to the next questgivers and do not need to be completed in order to continue the chain. This means you can walk right into Slave Pens and start the Ahune summoning chain without having done any previous quest.

Completing these quests under level 70 will award experience based on your level. Once all four of the opposing faction's flames have been turned in, the following quest becomes available from the completion NPC.

Torches, Torches, Torches!

The Master Fire Eater or Master Flame Eater located near the bonfire offers a two-part quest chain which unlocks two daily quests that can be completed for gold as well as 불타는 꽃. The first quest is Torch Tossing (Alliance | Horde), for which you are given 연습용 횃불 that you must aim and throw at a series of braziers found nearby the questgiver. A brazier is only considered an active target when it has an arrow above it that looks like a Hunter's Mark; non-marked braziers will not count towards the quest objective. When you use the torch you will be given a small targeting circle that you must place over an active brazier and click to toss. You are given x seconds to hit 8 targets, and if you are successful you are awarded with 불타는 꽃 x5 and gold (and experience, if you are lower than 70).

Once you have completed the first quest, the NPC will then offer you Torch Catching (Alliance | Horde). For this quest, you must light the 불붙지 않은 횃불 at the bonfire, which will then toss a flaming torch into the air. You have to follow the shadow of the torch, and then wait where it will land to "catch" it. If you miss, but are near where it lands you will suffer fire damage which can add up pretty quick if you're not yet used to the quest. When you catch the torch, there will be a very short delay before you will automatically toss it back up into the air, only this time it will travel a much shorter distance. You must "catch" the torch four times in a row to complete the quest, and you will be rewarded with 곡예 횃불 x5 and 불타는 꽃 x5.

Once you have completed both of these quests, repeatable daily quest version of both quests become available, aptly titled More Torch Tossing (Alliance | Horde) and More Torch Catching (Alliance | Horde). Completing each quest, daily, will award 불타는 꽃 x5 however they are a bit more challenging (this time requiring hitting 20 braziers, and catching 10 torches.)

The Guide will then give you the next part of the quest, 단순한 변장 for which you are given an orb that changes you into a Crawler for three minutes. In your new disguise, you must travel northwest of the entrance of Blackfathom Deeps - you will know you're going the right way if you periodically find blue-flamed torches, and eventually a small encampment on the shore. While disguised, witness the exchange between the naga and the Ice Caller Briatha until the quest completes. When it is finished, you can move out of range of the mobs and cancel the disguise, and summon the Earthen Ring Guide once again. This time, upon relaying the information, the guide will give you the quest 장로에게 소식 전달, requesting that you return to an Earthen Ring Elder and report your findings.

Once you have returned to an Earthen Ring Elder, the quest chain will complete and either one or two quests will become available, depending on your level. For characters level 22 and above, a repeatable daily quest will open up. The quest is called Striking Back, and depending on your level range you will be given a single objective at a location in Azeroth or Outland.

If you character is level 65 or higher, the Earthen Ring Elder will offer a second quest, . This quest asks you to travel to the Slave Pens in Zangarmarsh in search of Numa Cloudsister, who is located right inside the instance. This quest, and it's follow-up, are not actually required to summon Ahune! You can summon Ahune by going straight to Luma Skymother, without having completed any other Midsummer quest.

When you turn in that quest she will give the quest Ahune is Here! and ask that you find Luma Skymother, who is located a bit further into the instance. Finally, Luma will give you the quest 아훈 소환, granting you an 대지 고리회 용암 토템 allowing you to (you guessed it) summon Ahune <The Frost Lord>. Use the totem at the Ice Stone located just beyond Luma and defeat Ahune to complete the quest, which awards and experience (or an additional at level 70). The Ice Stone is located before the first boss of the instance, so essentially you could repeatedly farm the encounter provided you have enough players to keep summoning, without ever having to kill a normal boss.

If this is your first time killing Ahune, he will drop an item called 아훈의 파편 which starts the quest 아훈이 남긴 파편. Accept the quest and bring the shard to Luma Skymother, and she will reward you with 불타는 꽃 x20 and your choice of a unique tabard: the 여름 하늘 휘장 or the 여름 불꽃 휘장. You can only complete this quest once, so you will not be able to receive both tabards on the same character (well, not until next year at least)! The quest to summon Ahune can only be completed once per day, per person. Which means that if you have a five person party, each person can complete the quest to summon him one time (provided you didn't actually save yourself to the Heroic) and you could potentially do five runs, one after another. Even if you have killed the boss, as long as at least one person in your party is able to take the quest and summon him you'll have yet another chance at some of the phat loot he drops!

Bonfires

There are a total of 78 festival bonfires spread throughout Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland and Northrend - 40 for the Alliance and 38 for the Horde. If you visit one of your faction's bonfires, you can speak to the nearby Flame Keeper (or Flame Warden) to Honor the Flame, which will reward you with 불타는 꽃 x5 and at level 80. If you visit one of the opposing faction's bonfires, you can right-click to Desecrate this Fire!, which will extinguish the flame and will reward 불타는 꽃 x10 and at level 80. The bonfires in the major cities do NOT pertain to these quests. Not only does visiting these fires grant a ton of money for level 80 characters, it is also extremely good experience for pre-80 characters (the experience gain will typically scale according to your level)! Considering the great experience for little effort and the character buffs detailed further below, this is a great opportunity for some easy experience! :)

In addition to awarding easy gold and 불타는 꽃, there are a number of player buffs that are available from the various festival fire locations. At each bonfire you will find a Ribbon Pole, which creates a colorful streamer to your hand and causes your character to twirl very quickly (such as the effect of 소용돌이). In addition to being rather hilarious, you will gain the 리본의 춤 buff which increases experience gain by 10% for 3 minutes, stacking 3 more minutes on for every 3 seconds you remain twirling at the Ribbon Pole. The buff stacks up to a one hour duration (after 1 minute of twirling) and can stack with rested experience, so get it while it's hot! If a player throws a 불타는 꽃 into a festival fire, all surrounding players will gain the 불꽃축제의 열정 buff, granting +3% physical/spell critical strike and reflecting Fire damage to attackers for 1 hour, and scales with your player level. As if that wasn't enough, if you happen to be at a festival flame that has been extinguished and no longer burns, tossing a 불타는 꽃 into it will grant a zone-wide buff 화톳불의 축복 which gives your faction's players a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack, increasing by 10 Fire damage per level.

Stealing The Festival Flames

If you couldn't get enough of the bonfires spread throughout the world and like a challenge, players can dare to venture into the opposing faction's capital cities in an attempt to steal their flames! How exactly you "steal" fire is beyond me, but we can shove pack animals, an entire arsenal of fine weaponry, and gallons upon gallons of potions in 5 little bags on our person - so who am I to question the game's logic? Anyway, you can sneak into the enemy territory and attempt to snatch their flame, which is similar to extinguishing an enemy bonfire, only it does automatically put the item into your inventory, so make sure you have bagspace! This item will start a quest, which you really do not need to accept until you are ready to turn it in (you should probably be more focused on getting out of there, anyway). Alliance can turn these quests in to the Festival Loremaster, and Horde to the Festival Talespinner, located near any main city's bonfire (as well as in Shattrath).

There are four flames for each faction, one for every major capital city. They are not heavily guarded, and Festival-related NPCs will not attack you, but you should be wary of any surrounding guards and/or enemy players. The actual "looting" of the flame does not entirely break on damage and will only take a second. It is possible to make these treks rather painless and easy, though as a Horde player every city I ventured into I managed to aggro a plethora of guards that would spawn endlessly out of thin air. Be careful.

For every flame you retrieve and turn in, you will be awarded 불타는 꽃 x25 and your choice from a variety of festival treats (which, sadly, have a limited duration). If you manage to steal all four of your opposing faction's flames, the quest A Thief's Reward (Alliance | Horde) becomes available to complete and the Loremaster / Talespinner will award you the 불꽃축제 관.

Quick F.A.Q.

1. How many daily quests are there?Technically? Three or four, depending on your level. There is the torch tossing quest, the torch catching quest, your level range's 'Striking Back' quest, and the quest to summon Ahune (if you are high enough).

2. What do I do with all of these 불타는 꽃?Use them to buy cool stuff! There is a Midsummer Merchant located near each major city's festival fire that sells a variety of nifty items in exchange for 불타는 꽃, including the following permanent items:

3. Yeah, okay, cute - shoes that make my feet catch fire. Bring on the epics!While not actually a question, it's definitely worth reiterating for some of the higher level players out there that Ahune is out there! He drops a small assortment of level 70 epic-quality loot, including but not limited to a cool enchant (주문식: 무기 마법부여 - 혹한), one of the coolest looking weapons in the game, and a rad non-combat pet. Remember, he can only be summoned once per day per character - so good luck!

Burning Hot Pole DanceTo earn this achievement you have to dance at a Ribbon Pole located near festival Bonfires for a full minute while wearing the full Midsummer Reveler set. You will need a total of 400 불타는 꽃 to purchase all three pieces - 100 for the 불꽃축제 어깨덧옷, 100 for 여름 예복 and 200 for 여름 덧신. Please note that the 불꽃축제 관 obtained from the Thief's Reward quests is not required for this achievement. Simply right click a ribbon pole to grab a ribbon and start spinning!

King of the Fire FestivalTo obtain this achievement you must complete the quest 도적의 보상 (Alliance), which requires you to sneak into the four major cities of your opposing faction to 'steal' their festival flames. Details on stealing the flames can be found above.

Torch JugglerFor this acheivement, purchase at least 10 곡예 횃불 from a Midsummer vendor, and juggle them 40 times within 15 seconds while in Dalaran. Hotkey the torches and click the ground below your character to juggle them in place, though be careful as Dalaran's lag may be a bit unforgiving!

댓글

fenoglio의 댓글

great guide miyari! and the torch juggler... gotta buy the torches... still overall amazing guide!

PS: first

Mulder357의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:18:39-05:00

I do have a question. I remember last year you where able to stand on top on one person, both of you toss torches, and you can double the ammount of Torches you can get. Can you do it this year or no?

also 2nd!

IcelordZakal의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:25:33-05:00

I do have a question. I remember last year you where able to stand on top on one person, both of you toss torches, and you can double the ammount of Torches you can get. Can you do it this year or no?

also 2nd!

I tried doing this earlier today with a friend, he threw the torches and only he received them. So I'm afraid it was fixed.

drummerthing의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:25:48-05:00

For the torch juggler you just gotta pay 5 blossms for 5 torches, go into Dalaran and then set the torches to a hotkey and spam the hotkey while you click on yourself. Nice guide!

drummerthing의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:27:22-05:00

You have to do it in Dalaran IcelordZakal

Kinyin의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:27:34-05:00

Just when I thought I would take a break, I get pulled back in x.x

Qmccumber의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:32:52-05:00

And please note that if you extinguish fires, you -do- get flagged.

Don't needless #$%^& about being killed WHILE you were flagged. It just makes you look severely stupid.

ArgentSun의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:46:28-05:00

Overall, nice event. I am almost done with all of it, but there is a little something that bothers me...

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/midsummer/ says that "each individual fire can only be interacted with once per year", referring to honoring/extinguishing of flames. This good. But I've noticed that if you have interacted with a flame last year, you can't do it again this one. Think this'll be fixed? Because if it's not, many people will not be able to get their meta achievement...

Right?

Barinthus의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:53:12-05:00

The map for Stormwind is WRONG. The flame is not in The Park. It is instead near the summoning stone for Stockades at 50,72

iSpecOps의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:55:06-05:00

nice guide! and thanks for the info of that staff. Time to go get 1!

WildXenria의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:55:45-05:00

Blizzard have said on the official forums that they are aware of the issues with fires not resetting from last year and are working on a fix. However no timescale.

nihmue의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T15:56:42-05:00

Overall, nice event. I am almost done with all of it, but there is a little something that bothers me...

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/midsummer/ says that "each individual fire can only be interacted with once per year", referring to honoring/extinguishing of flames. This good. But I've noticed that if you have interacted with a flame last year, you can't do it again this one. Think this'll be fixed? Because if it's not, many people will not be able to get their meta achievement...

Right?

Yep, they are aware of the issue and are actively working on fixing it :)

Zenanor의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T16:02:21-05:00

YAAAAAAAAAAY the guide is here!

eeehm

Acquire flaming new threads, a sweet tabard, a new companion and more!

I don't see the companion as "new" since got it last year, the reason for thinking of it as "new" might be as it had a drop rate like the horseman's mount from hallows end. Because of that reason i've only seen 2 people on my server with it. I and a Warrior.

Long story short: Its not a new companion.

Edit: "eeehm" and everything below.

AleuTheLunarWolf의 댓글

on 2009-06-21T16:03:33-05:00

My guess is they'll either reset it tomorrow on or Tuesday. I hope it's tomorrow. At least I got the Alliance cities out of the way.

ArgentSun의 댓글

You should be able to buy both of them, if you give up on the vestments. All of the Midsummer items cost 1100 Blossoms, and you can earn only a little over 900 per year (assuming everything worked, which it doesn't). I'd recommend getting the pet and the 3 pieces of clothing.